Linking Clips in Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere provides you with powerful timeline management
features, such as the ability to manipulate a linked clip or lock
tracks on the timeline. In Adobe Premiere, linked clips are clips that
contain both an audio and video portion in the clip item. Working with
linked clips in Adobe Premiere is a simple process, and this handy
how-to guide will show you everything you need to know.

What You Will Need

A computer with Adobe Premiere installed

Footage to edit

Step 1: Launch Adobe Premiere

Open Adobe Premiere on your computer.

Step 2: Open the Project

Open the Adobe Premiere project that contains the clips you want to
work with on the timeline. Alternatively, you can create a new project
and import clips that have audio and video tracks that can be edited on
the timeline.

Step 3: Identify a Linked Clip in Your Project Viewer

In Adobe Premier, you can easily recognize clips types by the icon
that is displayed by the clip name. Clips that contain video only data
will be represented by a icon that resembles a short piece of film.
Audio clips will be represented by an icon that contains a small
speaker. Linked clips, or clips that contain audio and video data, will
have an icon next to them that has a picture of a piece of film and the
small speaker.

Step 4: Recognize Linked Clips on the Timeline

When you drag a linked clip onto the timeline as a sequence in Adobe
Premier, the linked clip will appear as two different object tracks.
But, the audio and video components of the clip will be shown in the
appropriate track sections unless you specify that you want the linked
clip to be shown as a single object. However, the default behavior for
Adobe Premier is to show a linked clip as two separate objects.

In the timeline, the audio track will be labeled with an 'A', and the
video track will be labeled with a 'V' to make identifying the tracks
easy. Also, if you look to the far left-hand side of the timeline
screen, you can also tell what type of track is being viewed by the
track description. For instance, a normal linked clip will contain one
video track and two audio tracks. The video track will use the name of
the clip in the project viewer, and the two audio tracks will be named
Audio 1 and Audio 2 respectively.

Step 5: Working with Linked Clips in the Timeline

Whenever you drag the video track of a link clip into a different
position on the timeline, the audio tracks will automatically snap to
the same position as the video track. This makes keeping the linked clip
in sync easier, and also helps to avoid mistakes that could be caused
by forgetting to move the audio track.

Step 6: Editing Linked Clips

Generally speaking, any types of edits that you perform on a linked
clip will affect both the audio and video portions of the clip.
Therefore, if you trim, delete or perform other duration type edits,
both pieces of the linked clip will be affected in the same way.